3 Oct 2017Mary Hockaday, one of the most senior executives at the BBC, says the objective is to focus on systematically improving women’s representation in senior leadership positions. Newspersons also need to reach out within society to women who have much to offer.
31 May 2017Radio K100, owned by Icelandic company Árvakur who also run Morgunblaðið, mbl.is and Iceland Monitor, has now also gone visual, being the first radio station in Iceland to do so.
19 Dec 2016A Facebook group of disgruntled TV viewers has emerged calling on weather forecasters not to stand in front of and block East Iceland when presenting their bulletin.
11 Oct 2016Icelandic midfielder Gylfi Þór Sigurðsson has made it into the ‘50 best players in the Premier League’ list currently being published by the British newspaper The Mirror.
29 Aug 2016This young couple making a new life in Denmark have made a video about the aspects of living in Iceland that they won’t miss once they are gone.
13 Jun 2016Icelandic telecoms company Síminn has agreed to open its pay channels for all football matches in the ongoing Euro 2016 football finals for patients at the children’s ward at Iceland’s national hospital in Reykjavik.
10 Dec 2015The weather news on RÚV is routinely provided by the Icelandic Met Office and on Monday was read out by a seismologist of the IMO with a detectable foreign accent.
13 Nov 2015Iceland’s authors have come out in passionate defence of national broadcaster RÚV, in the face of criticism of how the broadcaster is managed and plans for its possible privatisation.
30 Oct 2015The directors of the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, RÚV, have put forward demands to the Icelandic Government for an additional 5.9 billion ISK in funding.
26 Oct 2015Iceland’s centre-right Independence Party passed a resolution at its party conference this weekend which could spell the end for Iceland’s national broadcaster RÚV.